Bruce Goldstein of Film Forum has come up with a very timely reminder of the Great Depression of the ’30s with a festival of 50 Depression movies running from Feb. 6 to March 5. The series will include vintage shorts, cartoons and newsreels, and a Tuesday BANK NITE! As a post–Inauguration Day special, opening-day admissions will be 35 cents ...

The last time an actor won an Academy Award after his death it took no less than a manic, tour-de-force performance that included exhorting Americans to throw open their windows and scream, "I'm as mad as hell and I am not going ...

Victor Fleming: An American Movie MasterBy Michael SragowViking, 645 pages, $40 Once upon a time, movie directors had lives before they went into the movies. They fought in wars, they shot down enemy aircraft, they rode with Pancho Villa. They could field-strip a rifle, an engine or a woman, in any order that was necessary. Once upon a time, there ...

KATE : THE WOMAN WHO WAS KATHARINE HEPBURN by William J. Mann Faber,

'I don't want to act with you ever again, ' Katharine Hepburn told John Barrymore after appearing with him in A Bill of Divorcement. 'I didn't know you had, ' came the smart rejoinder. Hollywood stars divide into those who do and those who are. The divine Kate ...